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A RELEASE Special Offer for:

PELICAN DREAMING: POEMS 1959-2008
Poems by Mark Young
Selected and with an Introduction by Thomas Fink
ISBN: 978-0-9794119-5-3

Price: $24.00
Release Date: Summer 2008
Distributors: Meritage Press and Lulu at http://www.lulu.com/content/1955266

Meritage Press is delighted to announce the release of PELICAN DREAMING: Poems
1959-2008 by Mark Young, Selected and with an Introduction by Thomas Fink.

Mark Young was born in New Zealand, but has lived for more than half his life in
Australia. First published in 1959, his work has appeared in a large number of both 
lectronic & print journals, & he has been included in many anthologies. His publications
ange from the first book on modern New Zealand painting through more than a dozen
collections of poetry & his co-editorship with Jean Vengua of two anthologies of
hay(na)ku to a speculative novella, the allegrezza ficcione. These days he spends most of
his time editing the e-zine Otoliths & nurturing the steadily-increasing catalog of its print
publishing arm. 


To celebrate the release of PELICAN DREAMING, Meritage Press is pleased to offer a
special discounted release arrangement good through August 31, 2008. You may order
the book for $19.00 (a 21% discount from the book's $24 retail price) plus free
shipping/handling for orders throughout the United States. (For non-U.S. orders, please
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and you get a piece of one of my paintings.... 
hks

resolve 27

(ing)

drop (t)

“icarus’

left here”

tends throat (identity)

close

‘lyses closer

tongue

down “choking,

I’m” water

force’d space

articles attention

(up)

butting up

feather (s)

back ground

’ficial

block’d

resolve 26

“is

only an

example” 

implied read

wipe

around pushed

(rest) line

pocket out

“and open, releasing”

approach (less)

identity

butting

up after

nose tickle

(cough)

wipe sleeve

“no names, but”

wipe

resolve 25

“naming

an objective”

thumb nose as 

(pulling) napkin

paper “rubbed

implicitly or

relatively”

(ly) little

finger in

“to meaningful”

marking x’s “not”

sleeve can

“a surprise”

vulnerable

resolve 24

currents

‘ticulate (up)

shaped made “making

word, a

words” following

scraping toe (to)

superseded

“no big”

clumsy (desired) (t)

“words, no

big” match

(super

cede)

elbow out

cause skin hang

resolve 23

reading

(speech) less

ordinary lips "but

tonight," suppressed

attention wall

(s) anxious (ly)

smooth hand

rubs between

legs "brown

leaves left" lines

up reveal

hand diminish't face

"others understood"

resolve 22

holding

single pieces

(glass) “surrender, timing”

tubing tighter

(act) ‘tion

“finger switched, again”

pumps and jerks

(tied) “placing one

over another”

apparent (and) “ranging

‘plications”

basket full

(ness) bled (ing)

resolve 21

“towards,

covering thin” 

support leg front

forward (back up)

counter “constraint

shifting to”

disappearing vertical

(‘vealed) view

roof top

“film digital, blanks”

use approach

sweep out

(ward)

“in to hands”

resolve 20 - for hay(na)ku poets 

currents

‘ticulate (up)

shaped made “making

word, a words”

following scraping

toe (to)

superseded

“no big”

clumsy (desired)

(t)

“words, no big”

match (super

cede) 

elbow out

cause skin hang

(ing)

resolve 19

capillary

(to) artery

warm (ing) suffer’d

edge away

“we, nothing means”

headed jerking

walking

central St.

towards Alameda

(moon)

strike wheel

(balance) aluminum

basket

“another one,

cooked rare” drip’t out